Ramblings on Silverlight and occasionally WPF
Screen Capture in Silverlight 4.0: by Alon Fliess Screen Capture in Silverlight 4.0 Silverlight is now available for Nokia 5800, N97, N97 Mini & other S60 5th edition devices http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sls... WebMatrix, a new free website development tool is now available for download (beta) at WebMatrix ......
Found this via the silverlight.net showcase. Developed by a single person, it's an awesome demonstration of skill, logic and artistry.
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The <LineBreak></LineB... tags allow you to insert line breaks at desired location of content inside a TextBlock. Consider the following example, <UserControl x:Class="Demo.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.micro... xmlns:x="http://schemas.mic... xmlns:d="http://schemas.mic... xmlns:mc="http://schemas.op... mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="640" d:DesignHeight="480"> ......
You don’t have to be stuck with the default browser for testing/running your Silverlight applications. If say, you wanted to change it from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome, you can do it. Within Visual Web Developer or the Visual Studio IDE, change the settings such that a browser of your choice is used to test or run your Silverlight applications. How do you do this? Simple. In the Solution Explorer pane, right click on the HTML page name which is going to be your start page (for example, DemoTestPage.html). ......
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What: Design & Development contest Who: Microsft, Silverlight, Expression Blend and the Ball Watch company. How: Using Silverlight 4 and Blend 4, replicate the ball watch. Read details here Details Good luck!! Sad, that I can't participate for a simple reason of location: Contest open only to professionals or hobbyists in the field of software/web development or interactive design who are residents of the 50 US states (includes District of Columbia), age 18 and older ......
Check out these links if you are interested.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oren/archive/2010/06/30/debugging-silverlight-in-firefox-3-6.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikehall/archive/2010/06/23/combining-net-compact-framework-and-silverlight-for-windows-embedded.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/synergist/archive/2010/06/22/review-microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook.aspx
Lightning was one of several code names for a high performance, multi-language, managed execution system for COM+. It eventually became the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) which is now an integral part of the .NET Framework. Denali was the code name for the data-driven Web server technology that became Active Server Pages and shipped in Internet Information Server 3.0. Denali (the "High One") was the name the Athabascan people gave the massive peak crowning the Alaskan range, which American explorers ......
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Today the latest Silverlight MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) awards were announced. Here is the list of new/renewed folks. Alex Knight Cigdem Patlak Rodrigo Diaz Concha Jeremy Likness Roger Peters Andrea Boschin Dave Campbell Vikram Pendse Eric Ambrosi Joel Neubeck András Velvárt David Kelley John Stockton Jonas Folles Emil Stoychev Alex Golesh Congratulations to all of you ......
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A much interesting ongoing debate is on whether to choose Silverlight or XNA for game development, especially for Windows Phone 7. There are ample takers on either side which is what makes the whole debate interesting. But imho, it's all about the learning curve and the time you have available to invest in a new technology. If you are a seasoned Web developer, Silverlight makes for a better alternative. Of course, not all may agree with this. Here's a neat article dicsussing this subject: http://creators.xna.com/en-... ......
Some commonly asked questions about Silverlight. These aren't deep, but are often asked by beginners. What is Silverlight? Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform software framework to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that can be embedded in Web pages. What is meant by RIA? RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications, which are Web applications with rich user interfaces including media elements such as audio, video and so forth. You can think of them as being similar to powerful and rich ......
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